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Gun Control – A Problem For Our Times

The recent media footage of the devastation of innocent, young lives reignites the gun reform debate again, and what we as a community can do to stop another tragedy. The outpourings of despair and terror are becoming all too frequent in our society. Why do human beings feel the need to express their anger and disappointment with their lives by resorting to such extreme violence? The ramifications of easily accessible firearms are like opening a Pandora’s Box.

Exactly why is it that the pro gun lobby and anti gun lobby have so much difficulty in coming together in a logical and sensible way to discuss this issue? It is highly emotive, and naturally enough, emotions run high. Gun-owners believe that it is their best to be able to have weapons for recreational goals and to defend themselvesif and when the situation does occur. The remaining populace think that this must not be the case, because of the unknown factor of a individual’s mental faculties, and the ease with which these dangerous weapons, at the hands of the wrong person, can inflict such damage and bloodshed. Somewhere, in the middle of all this, is another cross section of the community that are largely ambivalent.

If the United States of America was successful in changing their Constitution, the probability of these horrible violent acts would hopefully be diminished considerably. If freedom gun-owners had to register each weapon, have them safely stored within an appropriate gun cabinet, and were only allowed for farmers and people who want them in the path of their occupation or are members of recognised sporting shooters clubs; society will be quite different. Everybody is accountable to their actions, and unfortunately, these types of atrocities happen when the man using their weapon doesn’t feel any social responsibility, is unable to deal with their anger and frustration at a nonviolent manner, or is mentally unstable.

The 2nd amendment merely permits the issuance of guns to adults, some of those adults usually do not appear to handle the guns in the appropriate manner. Several of the youngsters involved in school shootings have been reported to utilize their parents’ guns to perpetrate the massacre. This, in turn, raises a significant question of exactly how careful are the parents in handling their guns? Why are children having access to these guns? The American gun culture is extremely unregulated, and before it is regulated, we should expect more incidences like the Santa Fe shootings.

The voting power of the massive U.S. gun lobby is tremendous. It goes without saying that they wouldn’t be voting for Obama, though extensive tightening of gun laws takes place across the United States. The President is going to be under enormous pressure to start making gun law reforms, not just state condolences and shock at what has transpired throughout the latest firearm massacre, at Newtown, Connecticut. One of the facets of gun law reform would be to police and ban any type of private advertising and sale of weapons. This is likely to be hard to enforce, but there may be ways and means of putting strategies in place to avoid just anybody and everybody from to be able to purchase guns without assessing their credibility as a responsible owner. The power to make constructive changes to gun law reform is currently in the hands of the President of the United States and the ones that believe that enough is really enough!

A Real Wellness Technique To Weapon Control In America

Wellness is a good approach. Wellness traditionally focused on wellbeing and all manner of strategies, individual and social, for motivating habits that enriched quality of life for oneself and also others.

There is nothing positive about the gun mania that exists in America. There isalso, however, much freedom is gruesome, such as the wanton slaughter of innocents in schools and elsewhere. The fact that military weapons designed for battlefields are legal, available and easily obtained by just about anyone endangers everybody, particularly children, law enforcement employees and others that assemble in public places (e.g., concerts, dance clubsand schools, malls, malls and facilities.

The Issue of independence gun violence cannot be solved unless Americans rise up and eliminate the inherent enablers, with Time, with a five-step coordinated national campaign:

Decimate the Republican Party at the ballot box.
Pass all manner of stop-gap measures to at least mitigate the cost of gun madness.

Institute proceedings leading to the repeal of the 2nd amendment.

Bring legal actions and others worries to bear to the very dangerous organization in America, the National Rifle Association (NRA) in an effort to eliminate this cancer on society.

Create a national registry of guns, that is, identify who owns what and where the guns are located. At the moment, the NRAs indentured servants in both state and national governments have allowed no such thing.

Of course it will seem impossible, at first, to complete these specific things. Even though, over years and years of anti-gun citizen pressure and a strong will to pursue such measures, accomplishment of any one of these steps will require epic efforts to achieve. Consider the Way The Onion reported (2/28/2018) the position of Congress on gun legislation:

One other aspects of American gun madness could be laughable if not so harmful – like an amendment to the Constitution posed by an Arkansas Republican Congressman whose idea was supposed to protect against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to advocate or promote gun control. That little piece of NRA-sponsored mischief removed $2.6 million from the budget of the Centers earmarked for a study of the health effects of shootings.

There is a modest probability that some changes may come about, before a House (of Representatives) clean-up of Republican offal could occur in November: a ban on the sale of assault rifles and bulge stocks, even a limit on the magnitude of magazines, more thorough background checks, a raise from the age limitation (21 is recommended when in fact nobody less that 80 should really be allowed to purchase a gun, and then just an air rifle) and what are called red flag laws (i.e., no guns for documented mental cases).

These steps are better than Republican plans (do nothing) and the president NRA-backed proposal to distribute Glock 38s for classroom usage by schoolteachers. The Washington Post estimates that this asinine thought would put 718,000 additional guns within our schools that, combined with teacher training, could cost taxpayers over $1 billion.

Conclusion

Each proposal made within this essay deserves book-length details that describe strategies, complications, barriers and so on, and requires discussions and compromises and all manner of deliberations and the like. Nevertheless today is the time when all good women and men needs to reach the aid of their country, and do all that can be done in order to fight the madness whilst scoffing at the inanity of any politician who dares to offer thoughts and prayers and not anything more.

Wellness is a favorable approach however sometime one has to become angry in order to call attention to the negative realities of life that can render a health lifestyle of the highest order irrelevant.